Football · 1967 · Lisbon, Portugal
The Lisbon Lions
A Celtic team picked entirely from players born within thirty miles of the ground takes apart Inter Milan's catenaccio to win the European Cup.
Celtic 2-1 Inter Milan
Result
All born within 30 miles of Celtic Park
Starting XI
First British club to win the European Cup
Distinction
Inter Milan had been European champions twice already that decade under the coach Helenio Herrera. They went ahead in the 1967 European Cup final at Lisbon's Estádio Nacional through a seventh-minute Sandro Mazzola penalty, then dropped into the deep, disciplined defensive shape, catenaccio, that had made them close to unbeatable in the competition.
Jock Stein's Celtic, every one of them born within thirty miles of Celtic Park, attacked anyway and kept attacking, putting an Inter defence unused to that kind of sustained pressure under it for an hour. Tommy Gemmell's strike from outside the box levelled the score in the 63rd minute, and Stevie Chalmers turned in a Bobby Murdoch shot from close range to win it in the 84th.
The 2-1 win made Celtic the first British club, and the first from northern Europe, to win the European Cup. No European Cup or Champions League winner since has fielded a starting eleven grown that locally, and the team has been the Lisbon Lions ever since.
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